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On the other hand... for a lot of things, NHS Scotland handles long-term healthcare better than NHS England. NHS England essentially got forced into creating a
by vertex-four 10y ago
On the other hand... for a lot of things, NHS Scotland handles long-term healthcare better than NHS England. NHS England essentially got forced into creating a watered-down version of the Gender Reassignment Protocol a few years after Scotland implemented theirs, and from my understanding it's incredibly difficult to get anyone to follow it. I wouldn't give up NHS Scotland for the English system - and I think many Scots would agree. (And I voted No to independence!)
- digi_owl 10y agoAs an outsider my understanding is that one of the first things Scotland did after getting the ability to do so, was to roll back may of the recent changes to the NHS. This to the point that Norwegian politicians, the nation going through something akin to the Thatcher-Blair process, went visiting.
- zigzigzag 10y agoScotland can do this partly because it is heavily subsidised by the English. If the subsidies vanished I think NHS Scotland's performance would be significantly worse.
- pjc50 10y agoThis is difficult to do the accounting on, but almost certainly not true.